TheDREAM Act,
which hopes to grant in-state tuition fees to illegal aliens,
does absolutely nothing for Cao`s constituents—of whom
two-thirds areblack—and
nothing for his fellow Vietnamese who by virtue of their
refugee status are legally in the U.S. Furthermore, those
Louisiana-born Vietnamese teenagers who may now be applying to
college are U.S. citizens.

Why then would Cao make co-signing theDREAM Act
his first official matter of business? Is it because of his
immigration lawyer profession? More amnesties certainly mean
more business, even though Cao won`t be around for at least two
years to cash in on it.

The answer is probably a little of each. But
whatever the reason, it`s an odd choice to kick off his
Congressional career because theDREAM
Act hurts the blacks who voted for him by unfairly pitting
them against aliens—mostlyMexicans—for
college admission.

From their perspective, the U.S. invited them
to America after
the war destroyed their countryby
killing millions of their people.

The Vietnamese do not view crossing the
border to get a job in
construction orlandscaping
as compelling reasons to come to America compared to their own
circumstances.

They`re angered by the reality that by and large illegal
aliens get the same benefits as the Vietnamese—a serious sore
spot with them.

Since Cao needed all the help he could get to win his seat,
he`d be wise to remember who his friends are.

Three years after he set up hisNew
Orleans law practice,
Hurricane Katrina devastated the city`s 15,000-strong
Vietnamese community and propelled Cao into political activism.

In 2006, a group of Vietnamese plaintiffs fought against a
city plan to put a landfill in their neighborhood.

During the landfill conflict, Cao decided to
run for state representative asan
Independent. But despite knocking on doors, putting up signs
and raising $20,000, Cao came in fifth out of six
candidates.

Despite running against one of the weakest candidates on a
federal ballot in many decades, Cao could only eke out a
1,826-vote victory.

The results posted on the
Louisiana Secretary of State`s website showed Cao with
33,122 votes (49.55 percent), Jefferson and Jefferson 31,296
(46.82 percent) In
Orleans Parish, Jefferson won by 23,197 to 20,246 where 21
of the 392 precincts showed zero votes for Cao.

Of course, the party refers to Cao as its
“new darling”. In an internal memo he sent to House
Republicans titled
“The Future Is Cao”, Minority Leader
John Boehner hailed the freshman Congressman for the example
he set for the flailing G.O.P.

That`s all nonsense.

Cao has virtually no chance to be re-elected
in 2010. The demographics of the 2nd District are too
stacked against him. Assuming Cao gets every single Asian vote,
it would only represent
3 percent of the total. Virtually any respectable Democratic
candidate will beat Cao.

Cao`s inability to
raise money also indicates his narrow base and will further
hamper his 2010 efforts.

But most of all Cao doesn`t do himself any favors by
supporting anti-American—and of specific significance to
him—anti-black legislation like theDREAM Act.

Instead of aligning himself with Congress`s
most radical elements, Cao could improve his bleak 2010
prospects by tangibly reaching out to black voters by exposing
the DREAM
Act as the hurtful-to-his-constituents amnesty that it is.

Cao claims that he isn`t interested in re-election and that
he is motivated simply by the desire to do what`s best for his
district.

But if that were true, Cao would be on the
attack against theDREAM
Act and other similarly treasonous legislation.

If Cao doesn`t do that soon, he can
count on being drummed out of office and sent back to practicingimmigration law—where
he can carry out the same subversive agenda he`s currently
promoting in Congress.

Joe Guzzardi[email
him] is a California native
who recently fled the state because of over-immigration,
over-population and a rapidly deteriorating quality of life. He
has moved to Pittsburgh, PA where the air is clean and the
growth rate stable. A
long-time instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School,
Guzzardi has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It
currently appears in the Lodi News-Sentinel.